All Cormac McCarthy Quotes
- For even if you should have stood your ground, he said, yet what ground was it? Ground
- Each the others world entire. Each
- He can give me what you cannot. Death is not a lover. Oh yes, he is. Death
- Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the… Choice
- It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was… Ask
- My daddy used to tell me not to chew on something that was eatin you. Chew
- But this man had set down with a hammer and chisel and carved out a stone water trough to last ten thousand years. Why was… Able
- The wind sounded of Mother Earth's forsaken and abandoned cries. Abandoned
- He looked at a world of incredible loveliness. Old distaff Celt's blood in some back chamber of his brain moved him to discourse with the… Began
- Finally he said that if men drink the blood of God yet they do not understand the seriousness of what they do. He said that… Acts
- The flames sawed in the wind and the embers paled and deepened and paled and deepened like the bloodbeat of some living thing eviscerate upon… All
- If you dont respect me what must you think of yourself? Dont
- My daddy always told me to just do the best you knew how and tell the truth. He said there was nothin to set a… Always Told
- When we're all gone at last then there'll be nobody here but death and his days will be numbered too. He'll be out in the… All
- He'd half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat. Altered
- I yearn for the darkness. I pray for death. Real death. If I thought that in death I would meet the people I've known in… All
- I look for the words, Professor. I look for the words because I believe that the words is the way to your heart. Believe
- What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream Child
- We're carrying the fire. Carrying
- Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle. All